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Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by larrys »

duiker101 wrote: post #52
dkrich wrote: post #49

I'm truly amazed that this made the top of Hacker News. A $5 decal that advertises services. We've officially come full circle. I hear that people have even tried approaching potential clients and talking to them and once one crazy person actually spent money on soliciting business in a printed periodical with somewhat widespread distribution.

get something we already have, apply a use case nobody should care, make a nice website with a video and promote it like a great idea, overprice it = success.

"overprice it"

Why do you feel it's overpriced exactly? If someone thinks it's a good idea to try $5 isn't exactly a big risk to take to have a turnkey product.

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by bonf »

larrys wrote: post #57

To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…

Feel free to contact us at info@freelancersticker.com - obviously we missed it when we got the site up.

I think we got the WHOIS privacy by default on NameCheap. We're not hiding from anyone - our names and profiles are linked on the bottom of the page. I would, however, advise domain owners to be wary of information registered, as they may find their home address and phone number propagated all across the web, mirrored by tons of whois/rtld sites, never to be removed again.

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by dkrich »

larrys wrote: post #57

To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…

The timing of this is interesting to me because I recently registered a new domain, opted to leave my contact info public, and have since received an unending barrage of spam emails that I have to attribute to the WHOIS record due to the timing.

I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it.

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by mindcrime »

dkrich wrote: post #63
larrys wrote: post #57

To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…

The timing of this is interesting to me because I recently registered a new domain, opted to leave my contact info public, and have since received an unending barrage of spam emails that I have to attribute to the WHOIS record due to the timing. I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it.

I have my contact info publicly available on all of my domains, and I don't see any specific signs that any of the spam I get is directly attributable to that. But I did get an email from a guy in Canada a couple of weeks ago, asking about buying one of my domains, which I sold to him. Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives, but that's just me...

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by mindcrime »

neilk wrote: post #56
jiggy2011 wrote: post #2

This just looks like another generic meaningless sticker that people stick all over their laptops. If you really want people in coffeeshops to approach you try something more personal and direct. "I'm xxxx. I build websites/applications, feel free to say hi,let's chat!" or whatever.

Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something. It doesn't mean anything; I bought this laptop & went directly to a conference, and just wanted it to look slightly distinctive, and the duct tape was all I had. It does cover the Apple logo so it looks like I hate Apple or something (I do hate…

Yeah. For a long time I had a crude X in black duct tape on my laptop, and no other stickers. Almost everybody asks what it means because... it looks like it means something.

If I saw that, I would probably have assumed you were just a huge X-Files fan or something.

Actually, thinking about it now, I think the next laptop I buy, I'm going to put an X like that on there, along with a small sticker that just says "I Want To Believe".

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by bonf »

mindcrime wrote: post #64
dkrich wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The timing of this is interesting to me because I recently registered a new domain, opted to leave my contact info public, and have since received an unending barrage of spam emails that I have to attribute to the WHOIS record due to the timing. I agree about publicly displaying contact info, but would like to know some good suggestions for filtering out the crap that comes with it.

I have my contact info publicly available on all of my domains, and I don't see any specific signs that any of the spam I get is directly attributable to that. But I did get an email from a guy in Canada a couple of weeks ago, asking about buying one of my domains, which I sold to him. Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives, but that's just me...

Whois privacy email addresses will forward incoming mails to you as well.

A buying offer can be a smart way to probe the owner behind that privacy wall, who I guess most of the time is just a normal guy/gal...

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by larrys »

bonf wrote: post #62
larrys wrote: post #57

To the OP: Good idea but you need some contact info on your site and please remove the "whois privacy" from your whois record for the domain. In all but a limited amount of cases you don't need that. Use a separate gmail account that forwards to your real email to filter if you are worried about spam. Put another address into the whois and google voice number if you are worried about phone calls. To begin you won't g…

Feel free to contact us at info@freelancersticker.com - obviously we missed it when we got the site up. I think we got the WHOIS privacy by default on NameCheap. We're not hiding from anyone - our names and profiles are linked on the bottom of the page. I would, however, advise domain owners to be wary of information registered, as they may find their home address and phone number propagated all across the web, mirro…

"I think we got the WHOIS privacy by default on NameCheap."

Funny how that happens now isn't it? You have to ask yourself why are they so eager to give you that?

"our names and profiles are linked on the bottom of the page"

I was only able to bring up one profile. The rest you have to be connected or logged into linkedin. You have to link in to the linked in public profile. But even then the amount of info is limited unless you pay for the enhanced extra linkedin paid service. Makes much more sense to simply have some info on your site. And certainly not way at the bottom "below" the fold.

"as they may find their home address and phone number propagated all across the web"

That's definitely a valid concern.

My suggestion is simply to use a school address, po box or other contact address. For phone number as mentioned get a google voice number (or another service if you already have google voice.)

While it isn't advised and there are reasons not to do the following I can tell you that if you simply made up an address somewhere that would be fine as well. Nobody is policing that. In theory you could lose your domain but in practice that will never happen.

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by larrys »

bonf wrote: post #66
mindcrime wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have my contact info publicly available on all of my domains, and I don't see any specific signs that any of the spam I get is directly attributable to that. But I did get an email from a guy in Canada a couple of weeks ago, asking about buying one of my domains, which I sold to him. Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives, but that's just me...

Whois privacy email addresses will forward incoming mails to you as well. A buying offer can be a smart way to probe the owner behind that privacy wall, who I guess most of the time is just a normal guy/gal...

"Whois privacy email addresses"

A turn off for many buyers. They look like bogus addresses. Makes much more sense to take the effort to get a gmail account that looks legit and use that to filter. Then if you get to much spam simply get another gmail and change the whois. Etc.

Re: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this

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Post by mindcrime »

bonf wrote: post #66
mindcrime wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have my contact info publicly available on all of my domains, and I don't see any specific signs that any of the spam I get is directly attributable to that. But I did get an email from a guy in Canada a couple of weeks ago, asking about buying one of my domains, which I sold to him. Personally I think the benefits of having valid whois info outweigh the negatives, but that's just me...

Whois privacy email addresses will forward incoming mails to you as well. A buying offer can be a smart way to probe the owner behind that privacy wall, who I guess most of the time is just a normal guy/gal...

Interesting.. I didn't realize that, as I've never bothered to pay the extra fee for the "private" registration. But I do use a less-important GMail account for the email contact, so at least my main email doesn't get swamped. But the phone number on there is actually my personal cellphone, which could be annoying if a lot of people started calling, but so far that doesn't seem to happen.
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